Cybertaxonomy, like traditional taxonomy, is integrative. That is, taxonomists pull together, synthesize, and analyze all available evidence that is informative at the taxonomic level(s ...

“For example, we would recommend consultation with taxonomists to help independently verify the plants or plant parts being used in research,” says Simmonds. “While taxonomy has been the ...

In 2022, researchers made a startling discovery in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench south of Japan. At a staggering depth of 8,336 ...

Seventeen new species of plant bugs—a group of insects with a strawlike mouth used to feed on plant and animal matter—have ...

Nov. 4, 2024 — A research team has discovered two remarkable species of bacteria in the tissue of two deep-sea corals from the Gulf of Mexico. These previously unknown symbionts of the corals ...

The Natural History Museum maintains this database but we work closely with expert amateur and professional taxonomists who help us to keep it up-to-date. Data is provided to organisations in the ...

For plants the binomial name also includes the name of the person who first published that Latin name. This name however is ...

6, 2024 — A new paper describes a ground-breaking experiment that united 25 independent taxonomists from 10 countries. The initiative boasts the discovery of 11 new marine species from all over ...

A new species of blueberry, Vaccinium fallax, has been discovered on Mt. Apo, highlighting the mountain's rich biodiversity ...

Others come in one of the nearly infinite shades of brown that tax the vocabulary of avian taxonomists: rufous, fulvous, ferruginous, bran-colored, foxy. With its outlandishly long legs and fierce ...

Sometimes she is stumped, other times she realizes the reference books were wrong and misidentified a plant. She unveils two long rows of mysteries: plant samples from Africa that no one has ...

Six wild birds recorded in Britain and Ireland are to be relegated to subspecies status, as ornithologists from the Working ...